I used it in my offices where we have a few wireless nodes to allow access all over the property.

With my new Air, I also got a Time Capsule.

I thought I setup the Time Capsule with Time Machine, correctly, but I noticed a few times, on the little dialogue box, that it was trying to backup almost 100 GB of data?!?!

I just ignored it and let it do it’s “Magic”, thinking my NEW RELIABLE MAC AIR would never need a restore anyway.

I would sometimes sit at the desk near the Time Capsule (presumably on it’s network) for a few hours and then leave the area with my Air, to return again later for minutes, hours and more.

I noticed sometimes it would try to perform a backup while I was BUSY with other stuff and I would click cancel, figuring that it would bounce back to where it left off later, as the system is advertised.

4 days ago my Air lost everything. I went to the Apple store for an exchange and took the time capsule with me, hopefull they would make my new one an exact clone of my other one, which I had spent dozens of hours customizing, etc PLUS had thousands of files exclusively stored on it.

The tech said there we no backups on the time capsule???

I brought both back and installed Time machine on a PC in the network and found 3 FOLDERS, one a “parse” folder.

Using the migration feature on bootup of the new AIR didn’t work after several attempts, it couldn’t :”find”: any back ups???

I looked at the folders on the PC and one folder has almost 98 GB’s of files and over 100MBs in the others.

I moved these folders to the HrdDrive on the new Mac Air, but when I try to click on them (hoping it would launch some sort of uncompress app or something), it says” WARNING: Image: Appled MacBook_00163782389271…..tmp.sparsebundle”
Reason: “Operation not supported”

That one file is 68.1 MB, and it say’s under “kind”, on the general info tab: “Sparse Disk Image Bundle”.

Can these be used in this form at all?

I still have the “files” and would LOVE to get my new Air back to where the “old one” (4 weeks old), was.

Ideally, I would LOVE all settings, software, applications, customizations, etc to follow, but at the VERY least, the documents, music, images, pictures, spreadsheets, word docs, etc would be very useful.

Any ideas on what I can do here??

ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!